Word: teach-in
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...Affairs (CFIA), which is located on Memorial Drive, is forced to end a meeting when 200 members of the November Action Committee (NAC) enter the building and demonstrate. The following week marks a long-awaited Vietnam War protest week, during which Black Panther Party members speak at a Panther teach-in on campus...
Later that month, Harvard students hold an "Indochina Teach-In," at which U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.), New York Times associate editor Tom Wicker and MIT professor Noam Chomsky speak on behalf of the anti-war cause...
April sees the beginning of disciplinary proceedings for 24 Harvard students accused of disrupting a pro-war Counter Teach-In at the end of March by shouting down speakers. The University presses charges against three former students in Cambridge courts and bring eight students in front of hearings before...
...addition, Students for a Just Peace (SJP), who organized the Counter Teach-In, files charges with the CRR against 16 other students...
...Teach-In organizers stressed that Harvard already contains a multitude of people pursuing often similar goals, but through different means, without communicating. Hopefully, this week will spur students to think about the role of activism in their own lives and by doing so, help them to connect with others who share similar goals. As one organizer put it, "A lot of people don't recognize that you don't have to live, breathe and die activism here to [participate]." Concerned individuals need not devote the whole of their time to an organization or a cause to make a meaningful contribution...